| Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918 Contributor(s): Pérez, Louis A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822985136 ISBN-13: 9780822985136 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba |
| Series: Pitt Latin American (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lords of the Mountain is a colorful narrative that views how Cuba's violent history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was also a history of economic violence. From the 1870s, the expanding sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system, as the great sugar estates-the "latifundia" dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the popular resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violent uprisings and banditry propagated against them. |